I just tried to install gentoo linux, but unfortunately "emerge system" fails to build ncurses with the following error: | tic: relocation error: tic: undefined symbol: _nc_tparm_err | ? tic could not build | /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.2.20020511-r1/image//usr/share/terminfo Apparently, the tic binary built during this process doesn't work. I tried to start it manually (in /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.2.20020511-r1/work/ncurses-5.2/progs) and got the same error. The only thing where I modified the default installation procedure is to build everything with gcc 3.1 instead of the older version, but this should not be the problem here.
A new patch rollup shell script for ncurses just became available today. It apparently fixes compile-problems with GCC 3.2 (not sure about the other 3.x versions). It even gets rid of all the deprecated-warnings, as far as I can see. Without succesfully compiling ncurses, a lot of other packages such as mc, util-linux, and rte, will fail to compile.
Oops, forgot the link: ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.2/patch-5.2-20020901.sh.gz By the way, is this bug related to bug 4599 in any way?
hrm, I don't think I'm the one to handle this, I know nothing about ncurses
ncurses-5.3 has been released into portage. It is currently masked. Please test this build and report back on this bug with your results. I have experienced no problems with the ebuild as of yet, and this should bring us up to date with ncurses upstream.
I just re-installed a machine with the latest Gentoo version from the scratch and everything worked fine ... So I guess the problem is indeed fixed.
